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More than 100 supplement companies dot the terrain alongside I-15 snaking through Salt Lake City, Utah, generating $4 billion in annual sales--four times the revenue of the state's more famous ski trade. The herbal health business is so prevalent in this area that it has been nicknamed Cellulose Valley, after the primary component of green plants...
PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif—“Is it herbal?” “Maybe it’s just a grassy flavor.” “The finish is too acidic.” “I taste...
...first bottle was an interesting, fun champagne with adequate fruit that slid all over my palate. Our second bottle, a Chardonnay from Sonoma, came out firing with pungent and powerful flavors accented by a smoky, herbal nose that evoked hickory-smoked nettles...
AGADEZ, Niger—My great-grandfather Emmott O’Keefe was a doctor. He made house-calls in Northern North Dakota on a dogsled and carried with him a small black leather bag. Inside, Emmott kept various combinations of useless herbal remedies and semi-potent painkillers—not a single drug capable of prolonging someone’s life. His cooing bedside manner was the only weapon against his patients’ ailments.This was a century ago. Today’s hospitals, on the other hand, boast prescription prowess, the hallmark of modern medicine. Hundreds of drugs...
...phytochemicals, they fall into two classes: carotenoids, found mostly in orange-colored vegetables (beta carotene is the best known of the more than 600 carotenoids); and flavonoids--some 4,000 of them, found in, among other things, onions, broccoli, red wine and tea (green, black and oolong, but not herbal...